Re: [tlug] An old topic

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:
 > On 2008-02-13 06:53 +0900 (Wed), Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
 > 
 > > [Top-posting is] a miserable way to communicate about complex
 > > proposals which are being discussed analytically, piece by piece.
 > 
 > Actually, if it gets people off the usual usenet path of chopping up a
 > post into tiny pieces and responding to each piece individually, I'm
 > all for it. You've seen as many exchanges as I have that turn into a
 > large stream of tit-for-tats* descending into minutia that have no
 > overall coherency and completely miss the larger points of the original
 > discussion.

I don't see any difference, actually, except that the "usual Usenet
path" has a much higher probability of having some new content in it
somewhere.  I think that's your real objection. ;-)

Not a flame ... think carefully about it.